# CVE-2024-9825: The Chef Habitat builder is impacted by Indirect Object reference(IDOR) by deletion of personal access token

> An attacker can delete personal access tokens of other users due to missing authorization checks in the Chef Habitat Builder API.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 28 Oct 2024
- **Updated:** 29 Oct 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-hjf3-hgq2-9hw3

## What is CVE-2024-9825?

CVE-2024-9825 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Progress Software Corporation Chef Habitat Builder, published on 28 Oct 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Chef Habitat builder-api on-prem-builder package  with any version lower than habitat/builder-api/10315/20240913162802 is vulnerable to indirect object reference (IDOR) by un-authorized deletion of personal token.  Habitat builder consumes builder-api habitat package as a dependency and the vulnerability was specifically due to builder-api habitat package.

The fix was made available in habitat/builder-api/10315/20240913162802 and all the subsequent versions after that. We would recommend user to always use on-prem stable channel.

Weakness: CWE-863 (Incorrect Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-9825?


## How do I fix CVE-2024-9825?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-9825 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-9825 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-9825 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-9825 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-9825 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Progress Software Corporation Chef Habitat Builder, published on 28 Oct 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-9825 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Progress Software Corporation Chef Habitat Builder. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9825/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9825/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-9825
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9825
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-9825

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9825/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.